Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bring the review down to earth. While the movie is generally well-written, often funny, only the final twists allow things to just squeak into an ending before turning irredeemably tiresome. Everyone seems overly confident in the script's zinginess and protean plotting--and therefore gets lazy...
...Most Jaded Police Sergeant in the World, DeGeneres does her usual deadpan routine, often mistaken for a dry reading of the script...gets tiresome, even more quickly because the set piece one-liner barbs evoke a senile or non-acting star (Brando or the Beatles) who can only film one line per take. Although the numbing sarcasm seems so sick that it ultimately becomes appropriate...
...know a reasonable answer to the question will be found or this wouldn't live up to true commercial blockbuster form. Rolled up in the script's equation are a school and newspaper office full of colorful characters who provide momentum leading to the ultimate conclusion. Along the way, the movie weaves in a moral message or two in addition to the many hilarious mishaps of Josie's assignment and the saddening falls from her blossoming grace. The creativity underlying the fresh situations which evoke such emotional peaks and valleys in Never Been Kissed, are the same extremes we experience...
...Reason to see: The Prez's mistress is considerably cuter than M. Lewinsky; the president's name sounds like chewing gum (Wintergreen), which we find inherently funny at some third-grade level; and the script won a Pulitzer and since when did they give out Pulitzers for musicals? Plus, it's ironic. Not funny, but timely...
...film. Whereas in other skits we could start a scene up in the middle if we messed up, we had to do the locker scenes all in one take. We couldn't stop and start up in the middle of it. Everybody would start laughing...We had a script to follow, but we could also ad lib if it fit in with the jokes...